Interchange Guides: Installation

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Abstract

The purpose of this document is to guide you through the complete
Interchange installation routine.

While the concepts will be properly explained and elaborated on,
the intention is to make this document a collection of pointers
to other parts of Interchange documentation.

People installing from distribution-specific
packages (Debian GNU, Red Hat-based platforms, Gentoo, ...) do
not need a guide this comprehensive — the package maintainers
have already taken care of most of the issues.

The Guide is intended for people who want to install Interchange from
generic tarballs. You might want to prefer tarballs over
distribution-specific packages if you are either using a non-standard
platform, or want to always access the latest releases (when
distribution-specific packages are lagging behind).
So far, it seems the tarballs are the
cleanest and most preferred installation method.

Those impatient or already familiar with Unix administration and software
installations, might want to directly go unpacking the tarball and
running perl Makefile.PL; make; make test &&
make install in there.